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Succotash Clips 185.5: Hurricane Harvey Relief Exclusive!

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

If you’re unfamiliar with
Succotash, the short strokes are that we are THE Comedy
Soundcast Soundcast, which means that, to a large degree, we
feature clips from comedy soundcast all over the internet. (You
may, BTW, better know soundcasts as “podcasts” but we here at
Succotash feel like it’s time for a new name since the
iPod, for which the medium was named, hasn’t even been in
production for the past two years.)

ANYWAY…

The reason we’re doing
this special installment is because of a direct message on Twitter
I received from Justin Corbett, one of the
co-hosts of the Mindfudge soundcast, just as Houston was
beginning to pick up the pieces this past week from Hurricane
Harvey slamming through town. He was putting out feelers for shows
that wanted to do special episodes that would only be available
through a package where all the proceeds would go to help displaced
Houston area soundcasters and other various relief efforts,
depending how much money came in.

So here we
are.

I watched lots of the
coverage on TV of the hurricane – before, during and after the
storm arrived – and my heart goes out to all the good folks of
Houston who had to tangle with the mess, who lost loved ones, and
who are likely going to be trying to put their lives together for
sometime to come.

There’s not a whole lot
that I can do personally. I’m not rich, with a lot of disposable
income. I’m not a doctor, a nurse, an EMT or a firefighter. Heck, I
can barely boil and egg or feed myself so I’m not very well
equipped to help others directly. So I’m hoping that Justin is
successful in getting this and the other shows he’s putting
together out there and is able to bring in some much needed
donations to help the cause.

I wanted to give a
special shoutout: Key to helping me put together this special epi
of Succotash is our Associate Producer, Tyson Saner, who helped to harvest
some of the clips you’re about to hear. In addition to giving me a
hand, Tyson also co-hosts his own soundcast called The Anti Social Show
with Hunter Block, so check their show out on
SoudnCloud, iTunes and other places
online.

In the course of THIS
show we’re going to be featuring clips exclusively from
Houston-area comedy soundcasts. You’re going to hear from
Between Us Girls, Houston’s POV Podcast,
Mindfudge, Relationshit, Stay The
Course, The Stacks, and the Whiskey Brothers
soundcast.

In addition, I recorded a
short conversation via Skype with past guest, friend-of-the-show,
comedian and SNL alumni Dana Carvey
just for this special episode. He wanted to help out, he’s done
some comedy stage time in Houston over the years, so he tells me a
couple of Houston stories. We’ll get to that later in the show,
which is brought to you by our sponsor Henderson’s
Pants.

MindfudgeThe
intro on the Mindfudge homesite reads, “MFCP is a comedy
show hosted by three funny guys from Houston Texas. Each week
Justin, George, and
Andy get together and discuss a new theme through
a series of aptly-named segments such as “Mind-Melters”,
“Consumption”, and “Tell Us Something Nutty”. Listener
participation is encouraged, and every week the guys will answer
questions about anything during their “Ask The Nuts” segment!
Please email them questions to Mindfudgecomedy@gmail.com!”
We’ve clipped one of their recent “Consumption”
segments.

Between Us
GirlsAnother trio of Texans
are the women who host Between Us Girls, namely
Michel, Sharonda, and
Danielle, none of whom use their last names on
their show’s homesite. But that’s okay – these women are strong
enough that a first and only name is all they should need.
According to their site’s About page, the show is “a raw and
unfiltered show that gives a real life glimpse into the
conversations shared between women. Our show is a balanced mix of
fun and serious topics from politics and feminism to how to find
out whether a guy is boyfriend material. It’s funny empowering
stuff that can be enjoyed by both women and men. Did we mention
there’s wine? In addition to the comedic spin we take on everyday
life, we also review a bottle of wine each episode and give
recommendations.” This clip is from Epi48, "The Rules of Engagement
Rings", and they talk about the case of Evelyn
Lozado.

The Whiskey
BrothersI don’t want you to get
the idea that ALL Houston soundcast host work in threes, but the
next clip comes from another trio. We’re featuring the The
Whiskey Brothers Comedy Podcast, the details of which can be
found on their http://PraiseWhiskey.com homesite. The first of the
hosts, Slade Ham, we’ve actually mentioned
recently on Succotash when we talked with Jordan
Brady, the director of the documentary I
Am Battle Comic, when he was on episodes 157 AND 150. Slade was one of the group
of comedians visiting US military bases in the Middle East when
Jordan was filming. Then there are Slade’s cohorts: Rob
Mungle, another standup and the actual founder of the
Whiskey Brothers back in 1998, plus he’s done a ton of
voiceover work for anime, and Sam Demaris rounds
out the triumverate of terror. As a comedian he’s been seen on
Maxim’s Real Men of Comedy Tour and was named one of Funny
Or Die’s 15 comics to follow on Twitter. This clip is very recent –
from Epi 529 “Hurricane Rules” and has Rob talking about hunting
for supplies with someone…

Relation$#!tNext up is a show hosted
by a pair of saucy Houston women, Stacy Daniels
and Hoja (“oh-ha”) Lopez called
Relationshit. (To get away with THAT moniker for iTunes
listing, the homesite URL, etc., the “shit” part is technically
spelled “dollar sign, hashtag, exclamation point, tee.”) The
subtitle on their show is “A Comedy Podcast About Everything Love,
Sex, Genitals, & How They All Lead To DISASTER” This clip
is from Epi42, where the ladies interview Houston-based musician
and comedian Greg Cote.

Stay The
CourseStay the Course
is a soundcast hosted by "Big Pat" Thomas, who
refers to himself as “a big white guy in Houston who has a podcast.
I also do standup comedy but I’m just getting started with that,
too.” While epi 36 of Stay The Course is entitled,
“Hurricane Harvey”, in which I believe he was trapped on a boat
during the storm, we clipped the previous show with his guest,
comedian Nick Palermo.

Houston POV
PodcastI’m not sure this next
soundcast is strictly comedy but it IS from Houston and these guys
seem like they’ve got a funny side to me. It’s the Houston POV
Podcast, hosted by Johnny Riley,
Andrew Alpough and Marcus Wilson.
The headline of a Houston Press article they were featured in back
in February of this year claims they are renewing the lost art of
conversation. This clip features the three guys going off on the
entourage of a comic who came through town and had granted them an
interview, then seemed to go a little sideways on
‘em…

The
StacksMaybe it’s peculiar to
Houston but, once again, The Stacks is hosted by a trio,
this time three folks that describe themselves on their iTunes
logline as “standOUT comics”. Ballsy. I like that. Ruth
Hirsch, Ned Gayle, and Josh
Brokaw record their show in front of a live audience at
The Rec Room in Houston. According to the Houston Press, the Rec
Room did sustain some flooding due to Harvey but they are open for
business but hurting not so much from storm damage but in
cancellations of events because of the storm. In this clip from
The Stacks, the gang and friends talk about “workout
guys”.

WRAPPING
UP

Thanks again to Dana
Carvey for jumping on the horn and wanting to help out. If YOU
would like to help out the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, bounce
over to the Hurricane Harvey Podcast Pack site -http://hersh.co/HHReliefPak
- and give what you can to help today.

And
if you’d like to hear more of what we do here, visit us at http://SuccotashShow.com or grab
episodes from iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Laughable, iHeartRadio,
YouTube and pretty much anywhere else fine soundcast are streamed
and/or downloaded. And don’t be afraid to share that information
with your friends and family – thanks for passing the
Succotash!